it turns out that we know not just hurricane sandy. it was a pretty big season. jack bevins is with the hurricane watch service, national hurricane center. thank you. >> we are expecting a fairly active year. it may have been in terms of the named storms a little bit more active than what we were expecting. >> and he gives us the full court. >> we get 19 main storms during the year 10 of which became hurricanes. at the present time, we know that one of these hurricanes is actually a major hurricane, category 3 or higher. >> bill: you know what's funny? i don't remember, the only one i remember is sandy. right? but 19 of them this year. have you seen more that could be related to global warming. >> the scientists tell us that there is going to be an increase because of global warming in the number and in the severity of hurricanes. now, we can't look at one hurricane event and say, this is a result of climate change, but what you can absolutely demonstrate is that climate change and global warming is leading to more hurricanes action more severe storms and as a re